#head portrait

Finished - Yalin

About her:

• she’s a member of a semi-nomadic race called Onikin and the middle daughter of one of the chieftains
• she’s very strong and has traditional magical tattoos to enhance her strength
• she’s very boisterous, active, friendly and loud
• she likes to annoy Sharad by calling him bunny
• her main goal in life is to travel the world and see everything that is to see
• she loves to visit her family and tell them about her adventures
• despite not looking the part she’s a math genius and can solves complicated equations almost entirely in her head
• due to being an Onikin she can drink alcohol like water without getting more than a little tipsy
• her hobbies are hunting and taking care of her equipment

Lineart - Yalin

I think she turned out the best in lineart as well as in colour

Finished - Tarrin

About her:

• her full name is Mountaindaughter Tarrin of the Firebeards with Mountaindaughter being a title akin to princess
• she’s the eldest daughter of the King under the Firemountain and one of the most eligible bachelorettes among her race
• while she was first in line to inhered the title of King under the Firemountain she decided against it and transferred the right of inheritance to her younger brother
• her family still hopes she’ll return one day to take the title but they still support her
• she’s interested in archeology and has written already a few essays and a book about her peoples history
• her biggest goal in life is to retrieve the knowledge lost in the last sundering of her people
• as Mountaindaughter and member of the Firebeards she’s also an ordained priestess of the God of Fire, called Opantikaras, and well versed in fire-magic as well as in healing spells

Lineart - Tarrin

This is actually the first time I really like the way I drew her

Lineart - Cerine

I think I like the lineart this time more than the finished version

Finished - Talik

About him:

• he’s an exceptionally good musician, some would even say magical, but in his setting bards are just musicians without any magic
• his main weapon is a longbow with arrows he makes himself
• he feels more at home in forests than in cities
• he’s friendly, gentle and usually very laid back, but he’ll get serious should the need arise
• he doesn’t talk much about himself and usually prefers to take the back seat
• there’s a reason he wanders the world with Tarrin and company
• all kinds of people are quite drawn to him but he has only interest in platonic relationships at most
• he’s also a master of evasive answers to personal questions
• he’s the voice of reason among his friends

Lineart - Talik

I like how he turned out this time

Finished - Marive

I like how this turned out but I had somewhat a difficult run with colouring

About him:

- he’s an alder just like Sharad

- is afflicted with a nasty curse that makes him immortal but heals every wound (even minor scratches) at a hundred times the amount of pain caused at the moment of infliction (e.g. a paper-cut feels normal at the moment it happens but once the adrenaline has subsided the curse heals the wound, causing it to feel like the whole hand gets very slowly amputated and electrocuted at the same time)

- the curse can be mitigated by being instantly healed

- the curse has also screwed with his pain perception, making him able to stay (much to his dismay) conscious while receiving major wounds

- he has still full-blown nightmares fulled by another curse set on him, which he keeps in check with a medicine Cerine always prepares for him

- he’s a little over 2000 years old, which his for alder/elves in his setting very old and almost the highest age they can naturally reach

- also, due to the curse, he spent about 1800 of his 2000 years in a trauma-madness induced stupor, out of which Cerine healed him 70 years before the main-story takes place

- he’s the son of the last King of his kind but keeps it a secret from everyone except Cerine

- he’s rather small of an Alder, something Sharad likes to tease him with

- he has a major crush on Cerine but doesn’t act on it due to very low self-esteem

- his real name is Marigond with Marive being his nickname, which is also considered a proper name with Rive being a nickname to both

Lineart - Marive

getting his hair right was a pain

Finished - Sharad

This is the first time I managed to give him the kind of expression I imagine him always to have

About him:

• he’s an alder, which is the same as an elf (in English it’s okay to call him an elf but not in German as I cringe every time I hear the word elf in my native language and don’t know why )
• he lost his right ear in an accident he caused but was saved from wrose by Yalin (who calls him bunny every since, much to his annoyance)
• he colours his hair to draw attention to his missing ear because he likes to make the story how he lost it into a big tale to entice people
• he’s about 200 years old, which is very young for his kind (in human years he’s about 19)
• he’s arrogant, self-assured and loves to annoy/tease people he cares about
• he cares a lot about his friends but has his own way of showing, which often causes confusion or misunderstandings
• he also loves his horse Mayflower and dotes on it by baby-talking to it constantly in his native language
• he doesn’t speak his native language very well (his syntax is very much word-salad)
• likes to drink, flirt and sleep around with anyone up to it (at least when he isn’t on a job with his friends)
• he often seems rather shallow but there’s more to him than he lets on
• Shira is his nickname (like Vanya is the nickname to Ivan in Russian)

Lineart - Sharad

I’ve so many OCs, should I ever manage to give every single one (who has an actual drawn design/concept) a portrait, I haven’t even drawn a quarter of all of them

or even less

Writing about characters and integrating them into stories is so much easier then to give them designs not only fitting their setting but also their character

Anyway, there will more info about Sharad on the finished version